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DirtMonkey
Getting Established
1 reply
January

Thanks for the kind words Dave!Yeah, we're doing all our own landscaping bit by bit. The rain garden was just one of those "bits" i guess. We've only ...

DirtMonkey
Getting Established
December

A "french drain" (what JacobZ suggested) in the red region next to the pavers is probably your best bet, but then you need to have it lead somewhere d ...

DirtMonkey
Getting Established
4 replies

We bought our first house in Perth, and quickly learned that most of our gutter downpipes emptied water directly onto the soil, without any considerat ...

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Dave-1
Community Megastar
January

Evening @DirtMonkey yep you have nailed pretty much what I was thinking. Where I live we have high clay content soil as well as a lot of hollow area ...

Dave-1
Community Megastar
2 replies
January

Good Evening @DirtMonkey Wooooo You know when you come across gold? I love your idea of the rainscaping! I have something similar but its still a wo ...

Nailbag
Home Improvement Guru
December

Hi @nboucher I think the advice that @JacobZ is probably the best course of action. The one point to highlight is that you legally can't connect to ...

Bunnings Team Member JacobZ
Bunnings Team Member
December

Hi @nboucher, Thank you for your question and apologies for the delay in response. It looks like your house is on a gradient, but it is hard to te ...

Bandicoot
Cultivating a Following
December

An ag drain may not cope with heavy rain unless the trench is backfilled with pretty coarse material and you can somehow prevent it from being blocked ...

nboucher
Finding My Feet
5 replies

Hi members My wife and i moved into our new house in March but noticed in heavy rain water pools a lot at the side of the house. I was planning t ...

Bunnings Team Member EricL
Bunnings Team Member
November

Hello @DirtMonkey Welcome to the Bunnings workshop community. It's wonderful to have you join us, and thanks for sharing your rain scaping project. ...

Dave-1
Community Megastar
1 reply
November 2023

Morning @superkay005 That looks so good, Cheering about finding the ag pipe in the ground and thats a nice way to connect to it! Did you get hit wit ...

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DirtMonkey
Getting Established
1 reply
January

Thanks for the kind words Dave!Yeah, we're doing all our own landscaping bit by bit. The rain garden was just one of those "bits" i guess. We've only ...

DirtMonkey
Getting Established
December

A "french drain" (what JacobZ suggested) in the red region next to the pavers is probably your best bet, but then you need to have it lead somewhere d ...

DirtMonkey
Getting Established
4 replies

We bought our first house in Perth, and quickly learned that most of our gutter downpipes emptied water directly onto the soil, without any considerat ...

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